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  • dataramadatarama@hachyderm.io
    Oct 12, 2026, 3:49 PM

    i think a feeling of hopelessness is pretty much definitionally a component of depression.

    but this is the first time in my life where i not only have that hindbrain-level feeling, but even my rational forebrain cannot see any way things can possibly get better. AI is eating the world, and the world that had a place for me is gone.

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  • tekheddtekhedd@byteheaven.net
    Oct 12, 2026, 5:19 PM

    @datarama sounds like perfectly normal depression. At least it was for me.

    The mechanisms of denial can work to sabotage you, if your brain wants to believe something badly enough..

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  • dataramadatarama@hachyderm.io
    Oct 12, 2026, 5:25 PM

    @tekhedd When the AI wave started, I raced straight past denial, anger and bargaining to depression.

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